People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Mawson, Patricia Marietje

Birth

13 April, 1915
Windsor, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Death

16 December, 1999 (aged 84)
Brighton, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Dutch

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Anglican

Education

• Hopetoun School (Brighton, Adelaide)
• Woodlands Church of England Girls' Grammar School
• University of Adelaide

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• conservationist
• museum curator
• parasitologist
• zoologist

Awards

• Nuffield Fellowship
• Verco medal (Royal Society of South Australia)
• Officer of the Order of Australia

Key Organisations

• Adelaide University Science Association
• National Council of Women (Adelaide)
• Mothers' and Babies' Health Association (Adelaide)
• Nature Conservation Society of South Australia
• National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council of South Australia
• Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbooks Committee
• Australian Society for Parasitology
• Royal Society of South Australia
• South Australian Museum

Workplaces

• University of Adelaide (zoology)